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Samuel Johnson

James Boswell and Samuel Johnson: The Original Odd Couple

August 5, 2013

On the morning of August 6, 1763, at the English port of Harwich, a wandering navvy—what Americans would call a dockworker—might have glimpsed a sight passing strange and strangely beautiful. Making their way across the pebble-strewn beach were two men who looked like the original “Odd Couple.”